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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






2. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






3. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






4. Triple conjunction Mars






5. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






6. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






7. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






8. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






9. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






10. Mercury occults Neptune.






11. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






12. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






13. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






14. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






15. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






16. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






17. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






18. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






19. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






20. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






21. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






22. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






23. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






24. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






25. Transit of Venus on June 11.






26. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






27. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






28. Transit of Mercury.






29. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






30. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






31. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






32. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






33. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






34. Triple conjunction Mars






35. Mercury occults Neptune.






36. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






37. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






38. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






39. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






40. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






41. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






42. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






43. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






44. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






45. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






46. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






47. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






48. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






49. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






50. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.